itled to take action with a view te releasing
thship from the miscreants who have taken
possession of her and bringing them to trial)
is one which I cannot think can really coENS VILË
itself to Your Excellency. Che argusont aṛpeare
to be that the action of overpowering the officers,
seling the vessel and subsequently looting her
and robbing her passe.iger B loes not amount to
piracy jure gentium, though if the pirates were
to make use of the captured ship in order to
enable them to attack another vessel this would
indisputably to 80. The only authority sited
in support of this proposition, apart from
cert in "eminent juriste" who are neither
nured ner noted, la the Committee of lixporta
of the League of 3 tions for the Progressive
Jodification of International Law, and I winh
to make it plain at once that that äistinguished
body cannot be quoted in support of any such
thesis. In their eport, dated January 29th,
1926 the Committee of Experts wommunicated to the
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